Homebank data is transcribed in CHAT format as described in the CHAT manual. Transcribed data have been cleared for public access. The extensive collection of audio data has been diarized but not transcribed. Those data are password protected and open only to HomeBank members. For information on how to apply for HomeBank membership, see this link. The use of public HomeBank data is governed by the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 License. The use of private HomeBank data is governed by the HomeBank Data Use Agreement for Unvetted Recordings. Please remember to read the documentation that accompanies each corpus and follow the guidelines for data-sharing.

This page provides an index to HomeBank data. In accordance with TalkBank rules, any use of data from these corpora must cite at least one corpus reference (see citation info on corpus page) and acknowledge HomeBank grant support -- NSF SBE RIDIR Grants 1539129, 1539133, and 1539010.

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Special Projects: In addition to the full corpora listed below, there is a collection of Special Project data indexed here

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Corpus	Participants	Recordings	Description	Access	Lead Contributor
Bergelson Seedlings	44	87	Study of exposure to object words	members	Elika Bergelson
Casillas	54	54	Tseltal families	limited	Marisa Casillas
Cougar	59 HI, 34 NH	530 HI, 255 NH	English	members	Mark VanDam
Cychosz	22	645	US and Bolivia	limited	Meg Cychosz
DavisKean	45	580	US	members	Pamela Davis-Kean
deBarbaroChaos	14	--	5-second samples of random noise	members	Kaya de Barbaro
deBarbaroCry	26	44129	5-second samples of cry and no-cry	members	Kaya de Barbaro
Ellis	11	12	daylong recordings of Kindergarten teachers	limited	Alexa Ellis
FauseyTrio	62	186	3 daylong recordings per week per infant	members	Caitlin Fausey
FauseyTrio-Public	1	3	3 daylong recordings per week per infant	public	Caitlin Fausey
FieldsOlivieri25	25	25	cries, no audio	members	Margaret Fields-Olivieri
Lyon	16	49	French	members	Marie-Thérèse LeNormand
McDivitt	6	22	Children born to adolescent and adult mothers	limited	Karmen McDivitt
MendozaMusic-Public	1	3	Sample from the larger password corpus	public	Jennifer Mendoza
San Joaquin	56	166	Longitudinal study of children learning English and/or Spanish	members	Anne Warlaumont
San Joaquin-Public	11	11	public samples from San Joaquin corpus	public	Anne Warlaumont
VanDam-5-minute	53	159	5-minute transcribed segments from daylong recordings	public	Mark VanDam
VanDam-Daylong-Public	1	1	Complete transcriptions of daylong recordings	public	Mark VanDam
Winnipeg	2	8	Comparison across different child care settings	members	Melanie Soderstrom